Ben Chilwell

[HankMarvin]

4 hours ago, AjcW said:

Anyone who thinks Chilly and Madders don’t manage their own social media accounts still is mad!

 

CAN YOU IMAGINE the sort of DM’s they’re getting! 💦💦💦💦💦

 

Wouldn't hand over to an agency if I was their age  

 

 

"Hi Ben you look cute fancy a date?"

[Livid]

1 hour ago, Haywood_6 said:

Fuchs wasn't even on the bench yesterday. Justin was the only option.

or Wes

 

Seriously it wasn't his best game but it wasn't a car wreck of a performance either. Until Barnes came on he was pretty much out there on his own.

[Fox92]

16 hours ago, les-tah said:

Madders got his boys back. These lot do look through comments!

No wonder players get fed up and become disconnected with fans.

 

One game ffs.

 

I didn't Chilwell was too good yesterday, in fact I don't think any of them were aside from Wilf/Soyuno/Evans, but I wouldn't slag any of them off after one game.

[Jimmy]

Perez and Ricardo on the other side look to have already struck up a nice little paretnership, with Perez going wide just enough to help.

 

Maddison on the other side just will never play well on the left wing and there was no reason to play 2 defensive midfielders against Wolves either. Pick a winger, from Barnes, Albrighton or Gray and play them left wing and leave them there, allow Chilwell to develop a partnership with one of them it'll benefit everyone

[Pliskin]

2 hours ago, blue army 1988 said:

But it's not one game is it though. He's had 3 seasons!

So.. You're saying he's been crap for three seasons? 

[inckley fox]

9 hours ago, shailen said:

It was a poor performance but we all know he is not a poor player. Luckily it never cost us any goals or points.

 

He wasn't the only one. I thought as a team pretty much everyone was off it apart from Riccy P and Kasper, so major improvements needed before we go to Stamford Bridge next week. 

Personally I wasn't too impressed by Pereira either. There were a handful of good runs, some promising attacking link-up, a couple of important interceptions, but he was caught out several times by the direct ball, didn't manage to pose the sort of attacking threat that full backs need to when you have such a narrow shape, and surrendered possession cheaply at times. It was far from vintage stuff from him.

 

I wouldn't single Chilwell out because we simply didn't look like an effective attacking unit. Vardy had one chance and was largely out of it, Perez was poor, Maddison (regardless of what Phil Neville says) was poor and brought a good few moves to a premature end, Tielemens struggled, and I thought both attacking full backs had a tough time of it. Chilwell especially. It's no coincidence that, in contrast, Wilf looked the best he's looked for ages, Soyuncu was excellent, Evans very good, and Hamza did his job tidily enough even if there was an element of over-kill from having two defensive midfielders. It's  not unusual, when you set up defensively, for your more defensive players to be more comfortable.

 

And I'd also agree with those saying we can't get too carried away by a first game to the season. A point against Wolves isn't a disaster at all. But I can understand people wanting to talk about Chilwell, because he's one of those players who is going to need to develop in terms of his end product if we're to fulfil our objectives for the season, and that performance fell way short of that. So I suppose people will start threads about him for one reason, and for Soyuncu for another. It's not necessarily an assault on one of our own.

 

I also totally get the concern from people. Wolves were the away side, and a team we're aiming to finish above this season, and yet they came a good deal closer to winning that game than we did. It's our third league game on the bounce without scoring, and one of the principal criticisms of our last manager was that there wasn't enough attacking intent. And he played a line-up which hadn't played together in pre-season, and a system which we've only seen (with some subtle differences) in the weakest of our pre-season performances, in order to cancel out an opposition team rather than take our game to them. It's also a formation which he's said he intends to use a lot this season. It was very negative, and the manager - as much as anyone else - will have to learn from it.

[blue army 1988]

21 hours ago, Pliskin said:

So.. You're saying he's been crap for three seasons? 

I wouldn't say crap, but I believe other people would have got better and better during the 3 seasons.

[Guest An Sionnach]

Benny boy should watch a few old videos of Terry Cooper , hard as nails and could beat defenders with sheer skill..

[Pliskin]

13 minutes ago, blue army 1988 said:

I wouldn't say crap, but I believe other people would have got better and better during the 3 seasons.

Ben has got better and better in three seasons.... I doubt he would be and England international and have top clubs monitoring him if he was shite? Like any young lad (or seasoned pro) he will have games where he isn't on top of his game.